People gain weight when they take in more energy from food than they expend. Researchers wanted to investigate the link between obesity and energy spent on daily activity. Choose 20 healthy volunteers who don't exercise. Deliberately choose 10 who are lean and 10 who are mildly obese but still healthy. Attach sensors that monitor the subjects' every move for 10 days. The table below presents data on the time (in minutes per day) that the subjects spent standing or walking, sitting, and lying down. Is there a significant difference between the mean times the two groups spend lying down? Let ?1 be the mean time spent lying down by the lean group, and ?2 be the mean time for the obese group. Time (minutes per day) spent in three different postures by lean and obese subjects Group Subject Stand/Walk Sit Lie Lean 1         506.100 374.300 559.500 Lean 2         602.925 376.512 455.650 Lean 3         315.212 587.138 536.362 Lean 4         587.644 352.144 487.269 Lean 5         582.869 353.994 516.081 Lean 6         538.388 390.312 505.500 Lean 7         672.188 265.188 471.700 Lean 8         552.656 319.219 562.006 Lean 9         373.831 533.031 529.431 Lean 10         500.700 532.838 396.962 Obese 11         264.244 645.281 516.044 Obese 12         463.756 457.644 514.931 Obese 13         362.138 578.662 559.300 Obese 14         412.667 578.662 532.208 Obese 15         346.375 575.662 499.931 Obese 16         418.531 563.556 443.856 Obese 17         363.650 617.262 460.550 Obese 18         269.344 647.181 505.981 Obese 19         414.631 568.769 443.706 Obese 20         426.356 595.369 414.919   (a) What is the practical question that requires a statistical test? A.Do lean and obese people differ in the average time they spend sitting? b.Do lean and obese people differ in the average time they spend lying down?   C.  Does the average time spent sitting or standing differ from the average time spent lying down for lean and obese people? d.Does the average time spent sitting differ from the average time spent lying down for lean and obese people? (b) State the null and alternative hypotheses. H0: ?1 > ?2 Ha: ?1 ≠ ?2H0: ?1 = ?2 Ha: ?1 > ?2    H0: ?1 ≠ ?2 Ha: ?1 = ?2H0: ?1 = ?2 Ha: ?1 ≠ ?2 (c) Find the size, mean and standard deviation of each group.   n x s Lean       Obese

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  People gain weight when they take in more energy from food than they expend. Researchers wanted to investigate the link between obesity and energy spent on daily activity. Choose 20 healthy volunteers who don't exercise. Deliberately choose 10 who are lean and 10 who are mildly obese but still healthy. Attach sensors that monitor the subjects' every move for 10 days. The table below presents data on the time (in minutes per day) that the subjects spent standing or walking, sitting, and lying down. Is there a significant difference between the mean times the two groups spend lying down? Let ?1 be the mean time spent lying down by the lean group, and ?2 be the mean time for the obese group.

Time (minutes per day) spent in three different postures by lean
and obese subjects
Group Subject Stand/Walk Sit Lie
Lean 1         506.100 374.300 559.500
Lean 2         602.925 376.512 455.650
Lean 3         315.212 587.138 536.362
Lean 4         587.644 352.144 487.269
Lean 5         582.869 353.994 516.081
Lean 6         538.388 390.312 505.500
Lean 7         672.188 265.188 471.700
Lean 8         552.656 319.219 562.006
Lean 9         373.831 533.031 529.431
Lean 10         500.700 532.838 396.962
Obese 11         264.244 645.281 516.044
Obese 12         463.756 457.644 514.931
Obese 13         362.138 578.662 559.300
Obese 14         412.667 578.662 532.208
Obese 15         346.375 575.662 499.931
Obese 16         418.531 563.556 443.856
Obese 17         363.650 617.262 460.550
Obese 18         269.344 647.181 505.981
Obese 19         414.631 568.769 443.706
Obese 20         426.356 595.369 414.919

 

(a) What is the practical question that requires a statistical test?
A.Do lean and obese people differ in the average time they spend sitting?
b.Do lean and obese people differ in the average time they spend lying down?  
C.  Does the average time spent sitting or standing differ from the average time spent lying down for lean and obese people?
d.Does the average time spent sitting differ from the average time spent lying down for lean and obese people?
(b) State the null and alternative hypotheses.
H0: ?1 > ?2
Ha: ?1 ≠ ?2H0: ?1 = ?2
Ha: ?1 > ?2    H0: ?1 ≠ ?2
Ha: ?1 = ?2H0: ?1 = ?2
Ha: ?1 ≠ ?2
(c) Find the size, mean and standard deviation of each group.
  n
x
s
Lean      
Obese          


(d) Calculate the test statistic.
t = 

   
(e) Describe your results in this setting.
A.There is enough evidence at the 5% significance level to reject the hypothesis that lean and moderately obese people spend (on average) the same amount of time lying down.
b.There is not enough evidence at the 5% significance level to reject the hypothesis that lean and moderately obese people spend (on average) the same amount of time lying down.    
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